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Friday, 17 December 2010

Quilt retreat anyone?

OK so I am organising a quilt retreat next year, some time in March. There will be room for eight people although Mandy and I will take up two of those places. It will be in Derbyshire, slap bang in the middle of the UK and will start Friday lunchtime and finish Sunday lunchtime. I will probably charge around £50-£100 to cover costs but it won't be a gala dinner kind of affair - more like we all muck in and throw together some kind of supermarket instant curry selection, soup and bread and cheese for lunch, that kind of thing.

As I can only take 6 guests on this retreat I will probably pick people on the basis of who Mandy and I have most got to know out there in blogland and flickrland. But I just wanted to see who might be interested and this is probably the quickest and easiest way to find out rather than individually flickrmailing people.

Once we get a group of 8 definites, I'll set up a flickr group and we can organise it through that.

Yay!! Count me in! You know I have been waiting for this!! Barring any funnies, like having course dates I cannot change or get out of, or no dog sitter (which hopefully CAN be arranged once I know the dates in advance), I would love to come! About time we got to meet in person... It's going to be great!

Ok, just kidding, but I really wanted to be able to say that, and since I know how to keep caps on and type, I did, but you know I can't really come because Air Canada would likely mangle my new machine and once I got there I wouldn't be able to plug it in anyway, but I want to come and meet you all OH so badly. Can we just set up an IM account so we can chat all weekend? How about you just open a laptop in the corner with the camera facing all of the action and I'll just glue myself to Skype?

I would love to partly so I could meet everyone in the real world, however- I am not sure work and family commitments will allow- we have to do a family visit before Easter time and also not sure I could get my sewing machine and sewing stuff on a train, I don't want to mess your numbers up x

Oh, how I wish! Already have plans to hit Europe in June, so that and work make it impossible, even though it is such a LONG way away! And if anyone is worried about packing the sewing machine- if i can drag my bicycle around Europe, a sewing machine would be a breeze! Maybe another time! ;-(

Wow! It's wonderful that there will actually be one of these in the UK even if it is on a super small scale. I would say I'd love to come but then I don't know you, so it might be kind of weird. Brilliant idea either way :)